Method of producing material for ornamental woodwork.



METHOD OF APPLICATION FILED SEPT; 2. IBM.

PatentedSept. 28,1915

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METHOD OF PRODUCING MATERIAL FOR ORNAMENTAL WOODWORK. APPLICAHOIN FILEDSEPT. 2.1mm

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DILLARD REDMON, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Fatented Sept. 28, 1915.

Application filed September 2, 1914. Serial No. 859,874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DILLARD REDMON, a citizen of the. United States ofAmerica, residing at Baltimore, inthe State of Maryland, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Methods of Producing Material forOrnamental Woodwork, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to new material for the manufacture of cabinetwares and other ornamental woodwork and more particularly to a new andnovel process for the making thereof.

The primary object of the invention is to provide a new process for themanufacture of a material consisting of layers of veneers of varied andcontrasted colors so applied and cut as to give the effect of grainingwhen completed.

A further object of the invention is to provide a process which preventsWaste of material, thus economizing in the process, and a still furtherobject resides in providing a process which is time and labor saving, ascompared with other processes of this character, thus providing agenerally inexpensive method of manufacture.

With these and numerous other objects in view my invention consists inthe various steps as will be hereinafter referred to and moreparticularly pointed out in the specification and claim.

In the accompanying drawings forming a part of this application, Figure1 is a perspective view of a plank formed of veneers and placed in themold, about to be shaped, in the first operation of the device; Fig. 2is an end elevation thereof, with the mold applied; Fig. 3 is a sideelevation of the plank just removed from the mold and showing indotteoLlines the diagonal cut about to be made therethrough; Fig. 4 is asimilar view after the diagonal out has been made and showing thesections or risms reversely applied on one another; *ig 5 is a plan viewof a segment cut longitudinally through the device shown in Fig. 4; Fig.6 is a slightlymodified form of mold which may be used in the process;Fig. 7 is a plan view of a segment finally cut from a plank which hasbeen formed through the use of a mold as shown in Fig. 6; and Fig. 8 isa side elevation of plank showing a modified diagonal cut madetherethrough.

In'describing the invention 1 shall refer to the drawings in whichsimilar reference characters designate corresponding parts throughoutthe several views and in which 1 designates a plurality of thin layersof veneer of divers and contrasting colors alternately applied inparallel relation and secured together, as by gluing, to form. a plankor the like, 2; In. the drawings 1 have shown veneers of but two colorsbut it will be understood that veneers of as many. distferent colors maybe used, as are foundde sirable.

After forming the plank or board 2 of-the material as described, thesame is placed between the sections of a mold 3 and compressed tightly,as shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings. The inner faces of the sections ofthe mold are transversely corrugated as indicated at L, whichcorrugations extend the full length thereof and when the plank or board2 is compressed therebctween the same takes this configuration. Whenremoved from the mold or press the plank 2 is in a form as shown in Fig.3, and. at this stage the plank is cut diagonally along a line which inthe drawings, Fig. 3, is dotted and designated as 5. In cutting theplank in this manner a lower and upper section 2" and 2, respectively,are formed, which in the next step in the process are reversed inposition or matched, that is, the outer opposed faces of the sections 2and 2 are' brought in contact with one another, so that the corrugatedfaces thereof match or fit one within the other. These sections are thenglued or otherwise similarly secured together and the plank in this formis shown .in Fig. 4 of the drawings.

' From the plank or board so formed, longitudinal layers or segments 7,of any desired thickness, are out along horizontal planes, the line ofcutting for the first layer being indicated in Fig. 4, by the dotted.

line 6.

plane, matching the sections and then c tting the resulting plank alonga ho'rizont '1 plane, the final line of cutting is oblique to By firstcutting the plank on a diaggil the plane of the layers. This produced anefiect sufficiently varied to be ornamental and by a suitabledistribution of the different kinds of wood, of agreeably contrastingcolors and texture, very beautiful and striking eiiects may be produced.Such an effect is shown by the layer 7 in Fig. 5 which illuscut from theplank. N

no trates a plan view of one of the layers finally I In Fig. 6, I haveshown a slightly modified :[orm of moldor compressor to be used inthe-first step of the process.

This mold is indicated as 8 and differs from. the mold 3 in that itscorrugated inner faces indicated as 9 are more or less irregular and notone contlnuous wave or curve as 1n the first mentioned-mold. Ihe resultof the process using this form of mold is clearly shown by the layer 1Qillustrated in Fig. 7 of the drawin dotted linesas 13, and aftercutting, said segments are reversed and matched as in the other formdescribed. Otherwise, the

process is the same as that'first described.

. In any of the forms shown it will be appreciated that very beautifuland striking effects will be produced, and the boards 2,,

planks or segments so formed may e wrought into any kind of cabinetworkfor furniture desired. It will also be appreeieated that thematerial so produced is 1150 e durable and substantial than inlaid-orm0, saic work in wood, in that this improved wood, consisting of layersof veneer secured together and out has great strength in all directionswhereas the other is made up of fragments at the sacrifice of strength.

From the foregoing, it will be seen that I have provided a simple,inexpensive and efficient means for carrying out the objects of theinvention and while I have particularly described the elements bestadapted to perform the functions, it is obvious that various changes inthe minor details and steps in the process may be resorted to, withoutdeparting from the spirit or sacrificing any of the principles of theinvention.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim as new is:

The method of, producing material for ornamental woodwork, consisting inthe uniting and compressing of layers of veneer of varied colors toprovide a plank having corrugated upper and lower faces, cuttipg thesame diagonally to form a pair of segments, matching of said segments inreverse position and cutting layers longitudinally therefrom In'tiistiihony whereof I afiix my signature in presence oftwo witnesses.

DILLARD REDMON.

I'Vitnesses:

FRANCIS MAGUIRE, YVM. H. Gross.

